You deserve the downtime, don't beat yourself up over videogame days. As you know I am a complete unabler of these things.
Once upon a time I was in love with Our Lady Peace until I watched them live... Man those guys go super cheese on stage. Raine Maida was on stage all sparkly and put a rose in his mouth and started to scale the lights at the side of the stage...he was shirtless under a leather jacket with plethery pants, one set was with him playing with this rose in his mouth intermittently and grinding the side of the stage suggestively. Nobody in the crowd was digging this so there was a super awkwardness in the crowd as we all kinda looked at the spectacle and then to each other.. All I could think Wow...am I not 16 anymore cause I am seeing this shit in a whole new light. Mother Mother was after them and rocked it.
Really dug them circa 4am, supermans dead, naveed... Then the one man army was a step to the spiral downhill. Haven't seen many shows, but don't think I'd have liked Billy Talent as much if I hadn't seen them blow the fucking doors off live. Live shows are important, but sometimes 'artists' can't read a room for shit.
True. A problem I struggle with all the time.